A forum is planned Oct. 20 and 21 at Iowa State University to discuss news coverage of the presidential campaign.

The event is sponsored by ISU’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication and its advisory council – a group of 25 professionals and alumni. It will be held in the Memorial Union and focus on political journalism, communication and advertising. It is free and open to the public and will feature local, state and national journalists, communicators and political experts.

The forum’s top event, titled, “The Iowa Bounce: How Political Coverage Shapes the Race,” will be a panel discussion at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Sun Room. Panelists will include reporters Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times and John McCormick of Bloomberg News Service; political columnist Kathie Obradovich of the Des Moines Register, and Dianne Bystrom, director of ISU’s Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics. Chuck Todd, political director of NBC News, will participate via Skype. The moderator will be Bill Monroe, retired chief of operations for the Iowa Newspaper Association.